Triple

T925421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of St Andrews E19971 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object John Napier
John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
E109737 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John Napier | Statement: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, John Napier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Napier
Context triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, John Napier]
  • A. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • B. Augustus De Morgan
    Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
  • C. Theodore de Mayerne
    Theodore de Mayerne was a prominent 17th-century Swiss-born physician and chemist who served as royal doctor in England and helped advance early modern medical and chemical practice.
  • D. Abraham de Moivre
    Abraham de Moivre was an 18th-century French mathematician known for his foundational work in probability theory, including early formulations related to the central limit theorem and De Moivre's formula in complex analysis.
  • E. William Rowan Hamilton
    William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Napier
Triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, John Napier]
Generated description
John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Napier
Target entity description: John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
  • A. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • B. Augustus De Morgan
    Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
  • C. Theodore de Mayerne
    Theodore de Mayerne was a prominent 17th-century Swiss-born physician and chemist who served as royal doctor in England and helped advance early modern medical and chemical practice.
  • D. Abraham de Moivre
    Abraham de Moivre was an 18th-century French mathematician known for his foundational work in probability theory, including early formulations related to the central limit theorem and De Moivre's formula in complex analysis.
  • E. William Rowan Hamilton
    William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b32ad9f88190b7d477d0a9a9dbc8 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7ee0becc0819089b3dadc618cf83c completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7f3607c70819080c5e3e49ccc6de5 completed March 4, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7f3d1e97881909cbb97a8ca89c574 completed March 4, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.